Re: Architecture / Instruction Set / Language co-design.

From	torbenm@diku.dk (Torben Ægidius Mogensen)
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Subject	Re: Architecture / Instruction Set / Language co-design.
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Date	2011-07-15 10:28 +0200
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Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> writes:

> Recently I've become (very) interested in Wirth's Lilith/Modula-2
> workstation, which leads me to ask:
>
> What other systems were developed in a similar fashion?
>
> That is, to support mainly one language with the language guiding the
> architectural design.

The Three Rivers/ICL PERQ had a processor that was microcoded for p-code
(Pascal).

In the Japanese 5th generation project, a few Prolog machines were
developed.

Like LISP machines, these projects eventually failed because they
couldn't compete with stock hardware and improved compilers.  But I
think we in the future may see more languages designed for specific
hardware instead of the other way around: With increased parallelism,
all current mainstream languages are ill fits for future hardware
(though you can get some way by relying on libraries for parallelism),
so I expect we will see languages specifically designed to exploit
massive parallelism on architectures similar to GPGPUs.  These will look
more like APL than like C++ or Java.

	Torben

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